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Oh if I had a dollar for every time I got in trouble for refusing to show my work...

I remember sitting there stunned while my then barely 4 year old DD was taking a placement test for math. I didn't even think she knew what to do with a two-digit addition problem, but when faced with the question of 17+8= ? and was given the answer choices of a)14, b)20, c)9, d)25 .... she selected d)25. I asked her how she knew that answer, and all she could say was, "It is the right one". I asked if she added them in her head, and she looked confused, then said to me,"well it could not be 9 or 14 'cause they are smaller than 17, and well 25 is just the right one"

Our days have been filled with this ever since then.

Yeah, how can I show my work if it wasn't ANY WORK???

Sorry.....just had to get that one out.

When asked to show his work on math stuff, ds9 will make a bunch of arrows pointing from the problem to the answer, like, 'you see the problem, here is the answer, right??' Sometimes he does show work, but sometimes it's just the arrows, or a re-write of the equation from a word problem, and then arrows.

On my DDs critical thinking math assignments she not only has to show her work but write a complete sentence that justifies their answer.

Her first time she wrote "I wrote 12 because it is the answer."

Needless to say, that did not count for justification.

I did'nt really like it at first, but seeing how much my DD has grown in this area, I have become a fan.

There is perhaps some biology to support "women's intuition." In males, the brain develops more quickly, but with females, the two hemispheres of the brain develop more closely. It is believed the closer the two hemispheres are to each other, the faster the information is processed, making it harder to be conscious of how the brain has processed information.

I know this post is old.. but THANK YOU! XXX

Oh no ! now that I have gotten all excited abt reading this ... the link is no longer there! . .can s one pls help me to find it ?

I think this is it:

http://nswagtc.org.au/resources/for...garding-gifted-education-provisions.html

thanks!

Would anyone be willing to explain this point for me. "Direct training in creative thinking skills results in significant divergent production effects."